Slide buckle



.Sept. 29, 1931. l J. sALlsBuRY 1,825,016

SLIDE BUCKLE Filed Nov.i 3, 1950 Jessup E/fxmsaumy AT1-y irs D5 f STATESPATENT oFFiCEB :rnssnr sALisBUnY, or HAMDEN, CONNECTICUT, AssIGNOa ToyTinienmarcan` BUCKLE COMPANY, or wiisT HAVEN,4 CONNECTICUT, eCoupon-Arron or CONNECTICUT SLIDE BUCKLE This invention relates to slidebuckles having a substantially fixed` intermediate bar structure. It isold in the art to provide a slide buckle frame with side structuresprobing, or the like, therebetween `from a plane Y at an angle to thatof the buckle, but the open space between suchV intermediate bastructures, if sufficiently wide for an easy insertion of the webbingmaterial, reduces the intermediate bar structures to such an.

extent that its efficiency, to maintainy an acute detour of the fullwidth of the webbing thus threaded into the buckle. is greatlydecreased. The novelty of this invention partly resides in the bendingof one or bot-h iof the intermediate bar sections at their treeextremities out of the plane ot the buckle in order that the webbingheld substantially in the plane of the buckle may be inserted into thebuckle behind one of the intermediate bar sections while thus held, the"webbing thus looped around such intermediate bar section being pulledaway from that section to draw the remaining portion of the webbingwidth behind the other intermediate bar section. If the intermediate barsections structures are made to vary in length the initial insertion ofthe webbingbehind the longer structure makes it easier to draw the otherportion of the webbing width behind the shorter structure.- The objects,therefore, of this invention are to provide a Onepiece slide buckleeasily mountable upon webbing or the like; to provide a slide bucklehaving an intermediate bar structure extending substantially across thebuckle and capable of receiving webbing held substantially in the planeof the buckle and thus marginally inserted therein behind such barstructure; and to provide a slide buckle having intermediate barsections providing humped projections extending out of the plane of thebuckle. Vith these and other Aobjects in view, the invention consistsnot only of the particular form of structure herein pointed out andillus- Application inea November e, 1930. serial No. 492,995.

trated by the drawings, but also includes such other forms of structureas may hereinafter appear within the scope of the invention as claimed.-

The character of the invention may be t best understood by the referenceto one illustrative device embodying the novel features of theimprovement illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which theFigure.

1 is an upright elevation of the buckle in perspective; the Figure 2 isa top view thereof; andthe Figure 3 is an elevation similar to that ofthe lirst figure, but illustrating a portion of webbing in the processof being initially inserted into the buckle.

The device is preferably made oi" wire,

but may be made in'vany other possible way.

As illustrated, a single piece of wire is `bent at its middle portionand back uponitself to form the structure of the intermediate barsection 1. Each of the remaining portions is outwardly bent in the planeof the bar section 1 and atfsubstantiallyright angles thereto totogether form the side structure 2. Both wire portions are then bent inparallel` relation to the bar section 1 to provide the upper bar 3 andthe lower bar 4 ot the buckle frame, the wire portions being t-lien bentinwardly to together provide the side structure 5 from which the wire isbent within the buckle frame where their ex-V tremities are broughttogether and welded, as at 6, to provide the intermediate bar section 7Athe extremity 9 of which relativelyV overlaps and is spaced from the'extremityLv 8 of the bar section 1. rIhe overlapping bar extremities 8and 9 are each bent in opposite directions out of the plane of thebuckleframe, the extremity 8 providing a lip 10 extending out of the vbuckletraine plane,

the flattened portions 15 and 16, respectively, in the plane of thebuckle frame, the buckle thus formed providing the substantiallyenclosed and associated loops Vi3 and 14.

To mount the buckle upon webbing, the webbing illustrated bythe portion17 is held substantially in the plane of the buckle traine land insertedinto the buckle sidewise, the marginei portion of the webbing readilyentering between the lip 10 andthe bar section 7 and sliding behind theintermediate barsection 1 to engagethe side structure 2. rilheI portionor thewebbing 1 7, thus engaging around the bar section 1, is thenmanually picked up and pulled away from the back ot the ba: section 1 soas to draw therewith the entire width or webbing behind bothintermediate bar sections 1 and 7. he webbing above and below the buckleis then pulled taut and the webbing, with each marginal. portionthereoiE engaging a side structure 2 or 5,'is :fully mounted upon thewebbing as if threaderL into the buckle from the rear through the loop14u, around the intermediate bar sections 1 and 7, and from therontzthrough the loop 13, the huinped projection 12 and the projection11 increasing the acute detour of the threaded Webbing 17 and the'inneredges of the flattened portions 15 and 16 of the upper and lower bars 3and 4, respectively, providing additional bights upon'the webbing thusheld within the buckle.

v l clain LA slide buckle comprising a substantially rectangular fra-meincluding side structures each supporting an intermediate bar section,the sections being longitudinally aligned, one with the other, and thefree extremities of the sections being bent out of the plane of thebuckle and in opposite directions one from the other.

2. slide buckle comprising a rectangular trame having an upper bar, alower bar and side structures; and overlapping'intermediate barsect-ions, each bar section being provided by a side structure and bothbar sections being longitudinally aligned one with the other, theoverlapping extremities of the bar sections being bent out of the planeof the frame in spaced relation and in directions one opposite to theother.

3. l! slide buckle comprising a substantially rectangular-trame havingan upper bar, a lower bar, and side structures; an intermediate barstructure provided and supported by each of the side structures,

the intermediate bar structures extendingl within the frame inlongitudinal alignment one with tne other; and pro]ections provided byboth of the intermediatebar structures,

the oro'ections extending in the saine direction out of the plane of thebuckle frame.

l1.' A Vslide buckle comprising a rectangular framehaving an upper bar,a lower bar and side structures; overlapping intermediate bar sectionslongitudinally aligned one with the other, one of the sections extendingsubstantially across the frame and bot-h of the bar sections beingprovided by the side structures, the overlapping extremities of the barsections being bent out of the plane of the frame in spaced relation oneto the other and in directions one opposite to the other.

5. A slide buckle comprising a rectangular frame having an upper bar, alower bar and side structures; intermediate bar sections, one sectionbeing provided and supported by one side structure and extendingtherefrom substantially across lthe frame, and the other sectionV beingprovided and supported bythe other side structure and extendingtherefrom only to provide a free extremity Voverlapping the freeextremity of the farther extending sectiom'the overlap@ supporting sidestructureysaid peaked hump projectingout of said plane a distance equalto that of' the bent extremity of the lesser extending bar section.

JESSUP SALISBURY.

